CTMA Project #: 142285
Problem: Commercial maintenance organizations and the Department of Defense (DOD) are inundated by significant data integration challenges that encumber their ability to efficiently repair vehicle and aircraft fleets. Many times, these challenges are the result of inadequate data integration, coupled with legacy toolsets and modeling methodologies that provide inaccurate forecasting leading to improper maintenance resource allocation to include both personnel and equipment.
Solution/Approach: This effort will utilize E-6B operational readiness issues as a surrogate to demonstrate better efficiencies that bring together integrated data across the logistics, engineering, and information technology communities of practice to enable more reliable, more predictable, and more accurate decision-making. This project will enhance and further investigate tools introduced in previous efforts by integrating the capabilities into a seamless toolset that can be accessed by decision makers across the E-6B community. This integrated toolset will demonstrate enterprise visibility of each repair activity’s capability to perform specific repairs and will identify repair limitations that might exist.
Benefit: The innovative tools and subsequent data integration will demonstrate better support to the flight line, increased operational readiness, significant cost savings on maintenance and sustainment, and will generate lessons learned to assist other Services and the commercial airline industry on the improved process and technology.
Impact on Warfighter:
- Improve forecasting capabilities
- Reduce maintenance down time/turnaround time
- Enhance decision support tools and decision making
- Decrease maintenance and sustainment costs
DOD Participation:
- U.S. Navy
- U.S. Navy – E-6B FST
Industry Participation:
- Andromeda Systems Incorporated (ASI)
- NCMS
